Funny 1st Grade Quotes & Sayings

I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because everything intimate and accustomed is for an instant taken away; because we stand in the middle of a transition where we cannot remain standing. For this reason the sadness too passes: the new thing in us, the added thing, has entered into our heart, has gone into its inmost chamber and is not even there any more, - is already in our blood. And we do not learn what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing has happened, and yet we have changed, as a house changes into which a guest has entered. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Make your own music. It can be done. — Michelle Shocked

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. — Will Smith

I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass. — Alice Hoffman

She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master. — Georgette Heyer

There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else. — Christopher Hitchens

Stop questioning the tests that are put in your path. You're given only what you can handle. And those tests-making mistakes and figuring stuff out-that's what makes you stronger. — Jordan Dane

If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it. — Jacqueline E. Smith

So the force of the Self also travels through the psychic nerves and, pervading the entire body, imparts sentience to the senses, and that if this knot is cut, the Self will remain as it always is, without any attributes. — Ramana Maharshi

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. — Donald E. Westlake

I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV. — Brian F. O'Byrne

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty. — Sophocles

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' - or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?' — Keith Richards